From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Jun 2 15:17:15 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:17:15 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: "Lentiviral-based whole genome knockdown tools (shRNA-library for entire mouse and human genome)" - Open Biosystems Workshop/Seminar - Tuesday, June 3, 11:00 - Noon, deGrandpre Communications Centre, MNI Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Grace Flynn, Ms. Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:45 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: "Lentiviral-based whole genome knockdown tools (shRNA-library for entire mouse and human genome)" - Open Biosystems Workshop/Seminar - Tuesday, June 3, 11:00 - Noon, deGrandpre Communications Centre,MNI Hello everyone: Reminder of tomorrow's (June 3) workshop - 11:00 a.m. in the deGrandpre Communications Centre at the MNI I would appreciate it if you could send this to PIs, Post Docs, and other research scientists who might be interested in learning about this technology. Thank you. Grace Flynn Assistant to the Director, MNI From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jun 3 13:41:41 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:41:41 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture Today Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:18 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture Today Although the human amygdala is sensitive to taste quality and taste intensity, which together determine the biological relevance of gustatory stimuli, it does not encode the perceived pleasantness of taste, flavor or foods. Rather, it is proposed that the primary role of the amygdala in taste, flavour and food reward is to guide implicit approach and avoidance behaviors relevant to eating or rejecting foods. When the amygdala is damaged, the system errs on the side of caution, resulting in enhanced sensitivity to potentially harmful taste. In contrast, amygdala hyper-responsivity is associated with high body mass indices and the presence of behavioral phenotypes thought to lead to overeating. M. Jonesgotman Professor McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute Tel: 514 398 8907 Fax: 514 398 8540 Secretary: Annie Le Bire 514 398 2579 www.mni.mcgill.ca/cog/jonesgotman/index.htm Killam Lecture Speaker: Dana M. Small, PhD Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT Title: From Fear to Food: The Role of the Human Amygdala in Taste, Flavor and Feeding Time: 4:00 pm Date: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080603/2afb1fb3/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jun 3 15:35:08 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:35:08 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: REMINDER: Special Lecture - June 4th, 2008 Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:08 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: REMINDER: Special Lecture - June 4th, 2008 REMINDER SPECIAL LECTURE MCGILL PROGRAM IN NEUROENGINEERING SPECIAL LECTURE Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Rappez Department of Life Sciences and The Brain Mind Institute EPEL, Lausanne, Switzerland Title: Exploring Cellular Dynamics with Digital Holographic Microscopy Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Time: 3:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Jun 6 16:17:39 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:17:39 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Special Seminar - Friday, June 20 - 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sudhir Srivastava - Chief, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Grace Flynn, Ms. Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:12 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Special Seminar - Friday, June 20 - 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sudhir Srivastava - Chief, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Dear Professors: There will be a Special seminar on Friday, June 20, 2008. The information is as follows: Speaker: Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, Chief, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. Title: Translating Biomarkers to Clinical Use for Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Time and Date: 2:00 pm. Friday, June 20, 2008 Place: Lecture Room M1, Strathcona Anatomy Building,3640 University Street, McGill University, Montreal Information: 514-398-6354/1259 Prabha Ramamurthy Administrative Coordinator to the Chair Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology McGill University 3640 University Street Montreal, Quebec. Canada. H3A 2B2 Tel: 514-398-6354 Fax: 514-398-5115/5047 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jun 10 10:06:25 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:06:25 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Guest seminar - spinal cord imaging Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Petra Schweinhardt [mailto:petra.schweinhardt at mail.mcgill.ca] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:59 AM To: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Subject: Re: Guest seminar - spinal cord imaging Dear All, my former colleague Jon Brooks from Oxford will give a seminar entitled 'Imaging the neuraxis: spinal and brain stem fMRI'. The applications he will be discussing include the study of pain as well as related areas. The seminar will take place at the Geriatric Institute (room R-0715)on June 30 at 2 pm. The Geriatric Institute is located at 4565 Chemin Queen Mary, which can be reached conveniently from McGill by public transport. I hope that many of you will find the time to join us for this seminar! Petra Schweinhardt From Bruce.Pike at McGill.CA Wed Jun 11 16:54:32 2008 From: Bruce.Pike at McGill.CA (Bruce Pike) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:54:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] CIBC Gift Announcement - Tomorrow at 2.30pm Message-ID: <4461ED85-0EFF-4894-89F6-6150BD664EE8@McGill.CA> Hello, Tomorrow (Thursday June 12) at 2.30pm in the de Grandpre Communication Centre there will be an announcement of a large gift by CIBC to support fellowships in Brain Imaging. I encourage you all to attend to show your gratitude to CIBC for this generous donation. Thank you Bruce From Bruce.Pike at McGill.CA Wed Jun 18 16:12:13 2008 From: Bruce.Pike at McGill.CA (Bruce Pike) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:12:13 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: Thurs. June 26: talk by Jeff Orchard (U. Waterloo) References: <48596B33.4060807@cim.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <7DB5027F-19B8-4E24-81D9-8D2AD59F7C13@mcgill.ca> > > From: Michael Langer > Date: June 17, 2008 9:30:32 AM EDT (CA) > To: perception-list at cim.mcgill.ca, reparticim- > students at cim.mcgill.ca, reparti at cim.mcgill.ca > Subject: Thurs. June 26: talk by Jeff Orchard (U. Waterloo) > > > Next Thursday's Perception/REPARTI speaker will be Prof. Jeff Orchard > from U. Waterloo. > > Title, Abstract, Bio are below. > > Date: Thurs, June 26 > Title: "New Methods in Medical Image Registration" > > Abstract: > > Image registration is the task of aligning two or more images so that > their content corresponds on a pixel-to-pixel basis. In this two-part > talk, I will discuss two of my recent projects in automatic image > registration. > > Part 1: Most image registration methods assume that the images being > registered are nearly aligned. When that's not the case, things fall > apart. I have developed a method that efficiently combats this > problem by exhaustively considering all possible shifts of an image. > It's made possible by some FFT trickery. > > Part 2: When registering medical images of different types (eg. MRI > and a CAT scan), the images cannot be registered using pixel > intensities directly. For example, bones are bright in a CAT scan, > but dark in an MRI. Instead, the problem is often formulated in > information-theoretic terms, yielding the current state-of-the-art > method of Mutual Information. However, I will demonstrate that there > are advantages to posing the problem in terms of clustering. > > Bio: > > Jeff Orchard received his B.Math. degree in applied mathematics from > the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1994, and his M.Sc. degree in > applied mathematics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, > in 1996. He received his Ph.D. degree in computing science from Simon > Fraser University, Canada, in 2003. > > Since 2003, Prof. Orchard has been an Assistant Professor in the David > R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, > Canada. His research interests revolve around applying mathematics > and computation to visual data. He has worked on projects in image > registration, motion compensation for medical imaging, functional MRI, > medical image reconstruction, and image mosaicking. At the University > of Waterloo, he is affiliated with the Scientific Computing Research > Group, the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, and the > Centre for Computational Mathematics in Industry and Commerce. In > 2005, Prof. Orchard organized a workshop called the "Grand > Mathematical Challenges in Medical Image Processing". > I hope to see you all there. > > A complete schedule can be found at > http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~langer/CIMArtificialPerception.txt > > -Mike > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080618/87f6f5db/attachment.htm From Bruce.Pike at McGill.CA Wed Jun 18 16:31:42 2008 From: Bruce.Pike at McGill.CA (Bruce Pike) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:31:42 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Correction: Thurs. June 26: talk by Jeff Orchard (U. Waterloo) References: <48596FDA.6020106@cim.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <7E50A85E-6B8A-4A61-9804-6AF5E6C39C23@McGill.CA> > The talk will be given in the CIM seminar room, McConnell > Engineering, room 437 at 3:00pm. > Thanks, > > Bruce Pike wrote: >>> >>> *From: *Michael Langer >> >> >>> *Date: *June 17, 2008 9:30:32 AM EDT (CA) >>> *To: *perception-list at cim.mcgill.ca >> >, reparticim-students at cim.mcgill.ca >> >, reparti at cim.mcgill.ca >>> *Subject: **Thurs. June 26: talk by Jeff Orchard (U. Waterloo)* >>> >>> >>> Next Thursday's Perception/REPARTI speaker will be Prof. Jeff >>> Orchard >>> from U. Waterloo. >>> >>> Title, Abstract, Bio are below. >>> >>> Date: Thurs, June 26 >>> Title: "New Methods in Medical Image Registration" >>> >>> Abstract: >>> >>> Image registration is the task of aligning two or more images so >>> that >>> their content corresponds on a pixel-to-pixel basis. In this two- >>> part >>> talk, I will discuss two of my recent projects in automatic image >>> registration. >>> >>> Part 1: Most image registration methods assume that the images being >>> registered are nearly aligned. When that's not the case, things >>> fall >>> apart. I have developed a method that efficiently combats this >>> problem by exhaustively considering all possible shifts of an image. >>> It's made possible by some FFT trickery. >>> >>> Part 2: When registering medical images of different types (eg. MRI >>> and a CAT scan), the images cannot be registered using pixel >>> intensities directly. For example, bones are bright in a CAT scan, >>> but dark in an MRI. Instead, the problem is often formulated in >>> information-theoretic terms, yielding the current state-of-the-art >>> method of Mutual Information. However, I will demonstrate that >>> there >>> are advantages to posing the problem in terms of clustering. >>> >>> Bio: >>> >>> Jeff Orchard received his B.Math. degree in applied mathematics from >>> the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1994, and his M.Sc. degree in >>> applied mathematics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, >>> in 1996. He received his Ph.D. degree in computing science from >>> Simon >>> Fraser University, Canada, in 2003. >>> >>> Since 2003, Prof. Orchard has been an Assistant Professor in the >>> David >>> R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of >>> Waterloo, >>> Canada. His research interests revolve around applying mathematics >>> and computation to visual data. He has worked on projects in image >>> registration, motion compensation for medical imaging, functional >>> MRI, >>> medical image reconstruction, and image mosaicking. At the >>> University >>> of Waterloo, he is affiliated with the Scientific Computing Research >>> Group, the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research, and >>> the >>> Centre for Computational Mathematics in Industry and Commerce. In >>> 2005, Prof. Orchard organized a workshop called the "Grand >>> Mathematical Challenges in Medical Image Processing". >>> I hope to see you all there. >>> >>> A complete schedule can be found at >>> http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~langer/CIMArtificialPerception.txt >> > >>> >>> -Mike >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tal Arbel, Assistant Professor > Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tel. (514) 398-8204 > Centre for Intelligent Machines Fax. (514) 398-7348 > McConnell Engineering Building, room 425 McGill > University arbel at cim.mcgill.ca > 3480 University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 > http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~arbel > = > = > = > = > = > ====================================================================== > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Therefore, > pathologically significant cases of cancer can be missed during > biopsy, > resulting in false negative or repeated trials. The goal of our > research is > to augment ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy by adding tissue typing > information that can be used for targeted biopsies. Recently, we have > proposed a new paradigm in tissue typing. The core of the idea is > that if a > specific location in tissue undergoes continuous interaction with > ultrasound, the time series of echoes from that location would carry > "tissue > typing" information. In other words, although variations in the > intensity of > a spatial sample of RF echo over time are partly due to different > sources of > noise, they depend on the tissue type as well. To create RF time > series, we > continuously record RF echo signals backscattered from tissue, while > the > imaging probe and the tissue are fixed in position. Samples of RF > signals > collected over time from a fixed location of tissue form one RF time > series. > We extract the fractal dimension and six spectral features from the > RF time > series and use them with Support Vector Machines (SVM) for tissue > typing. We > report an extensive clinical in-vitro study involving 35 patients in > which > the performance of RF time series features for tissue typing in > prostate is > evaluated. An extended version of SVM classification that provides > posterior > class (cancer or normal) probabilities for regions of interest of > the tissue > is used in this study. The outcomes are validated based on detailed > histopathologic maps acquired from studied specimen. The results of > our > study show that the RF time series features are powerful tissue typing > parameters with an area under Receiver Operating Characteristic > (ROC) curve > of 0.89 in 10 fold cross validation. We also present colormaps that > accurately highlight areas of tissue with high risk of cancer on > ultrasound > images. > > Bio: > > Mehdi Moradi graduated with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering from > University > of Tehran in 2003 and started his PhD at the School of Computing, > Queen's > University in 2004. Mehdi's research interests are in computer-aided > diagnosis and ultrasound-based interventions. His research on > ultrasound RF > time series and their potential role in computer-aided diagnosis of > prostate > cancer has been praised in several meetings and was the winner of > the Best > Poster Award and the Best Technical Demonstration Award at the > Canadian > Intelligent Systems Conference, May 2007, Montreal. > > > > > -- > Jeremy R. Cooperstock | Tel: +1-514-398-5992 > http://www.cim.mcgill.edu/~jer | Fax: +1-514-398-7348 > > Associate Professor > Centre for Intelligent Machines and > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering > McGill University > 3480 University Street, Room 424 > Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, Canada > > --- > Please note my email policy: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~jer/email.html > > > > > From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Jun 26 09:54:53 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:54:53 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Post-doc position available Message-ID: ------------------- A post-doc position is available september 08. The postdoctoral grant for 1 ? 1 years (48K?/year incl taxes) is on the general topic of structural brain imaging in psychiatric disorders. This includes image processing of databases (T1 and DTI ) of patients or control subjects: brain images of juvenile patients with early psychosis or depression, or pharmaco-resistant subjects. Relationships with clinIcal features and treatments might be at stake. The Post doc could work on voxel based-analysis as well as on other approaches of cortex gyrification and thickness. The position is located on two sites, in Paris and Orsay (I2BM - CEA). Jean-Luc Martinot (jean-luc.martinot at cea.fr) -- ______________________________________________________ Arnaud Cachia, PhD Unit? INSERM-CEA 797 "Imagerie c?r?brale & Psychiatrie" Service Hospitalier Fr?d?ric Joliot - B?t. 829 ; Bur. D101 4 Place Gl. Leclerc - 91401 Orsay Tel/Fax : +33 (0)1 69 86 7784/7810 http://brainvisa.info/people/cachia/ ______________________________________________________ -- Olivier Colliot ------------------------------------------------------------ | CNRS UPR 640 - LENA | | H?pital de la Salp?tri?re | | 47 boulevard de l'h?pital | | 75013 Paris | | | | Mobile: +33 6 14 44 38 72 | | Phone: +33 1 42 16 11 86 (int.: 61186) | | | | Home page: http://cogimage.dsi.cnrs.fr/perso/colliot | | Lab page: http://cogimage.dsi.cnrs.fr | | | ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080626/8711f20c/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Jun 26 10:17:16 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:17:16 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Position availabe for full-time research assistant - please see below. Message-ID: I am looking for a full-time research assistant who has experience conducting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research and who will be involved in MRI projects, primarily related to fMRI and DTI in the Brain Imaging Centre (BIC). Ideally, this individual will have an undergraduate in engineering or computer science and an M.Sc. in the area of medical imaging and will have had experience with Siemens MRI equipment. The person will be knowledgeable in computer science and engineering methods and have experience with C, C++, Matlab, and MINC programming. Could anybody interested please contact me either by email at denise.klein at mcgill.ca or by phone at 514 398 3134. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080626/12a9cb65/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Jun 26 11:29:35 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:29:35 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: reminder guest seminar June 30 Message-ID: Reminder Guest Seminar June 30 Speaker: Jonathan Brooks, PhD, Oxford University Title: 'Imaging the neuraxis: spinal and brain stem fMRI' Place: Geriatric Institute (room R-0715), 4565 Chemin Queen Mary Time: June 30, 2 pm.